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So I've done a lot of work on the beast as of late. Including rebuilding the entire front suspension, control arms, bushings, tie rods, new shocks/struts, mounts and springs all around. I've done the brakes as well with new pads, new OEM rotors and a brake fluid flush. I left the calipers as they were, old. Pelican parts didn't have rebuild kits in stock when I did the brakes so I had to let that go. Overall the car drives fantastic.

But it still have this issue I can't figure out.

But when I come to stop I get a slight pulse in the brakes, it's almost "eccentric" as the car is stopping and it is really only noticeable at light stopping speed. If you stand on the brakes it hard you don't notice it. It's driving me crazy as there isn't much left to replace that I haven't already done.

Could this be due to me not rebuilding the brake calipers? The caliper piston is possibly binding? Or is this possibly the ABS unit? I don't think it's the wheal bearings but you never know. I keep leaning towards caliper rebuild time, I'm curious if any one else has experienced this.

As always any input is appreciated. I would love for this car to come to a clean stop.

That's a good point. I'm going to looking into that. I don't have a dial indicator at the moment but I did find online a " wood block method " to check tire wheel run out. Not the most precise way to check things but it could give me an idea. Thoughts?

My next question would be if my wheel run out is out of tolerance, what is the cause?
Wheel bearings?

I have noticed mine does this as well. I notice it if i'm creeping while on the brakes, less than 1mph. I don't feel it in normal braking, or when coming to a stop, only at creep speeds. Did you ever figure this issue out?

I did get it resolved. I don't know why I did not consider this earlier- rear brakes. I rebuilt the rear brakes , new rotors and pads. Problem solved.

The car now comes to a stop ever so smoothly. There was plenty of life left on the old pads, the rotors looked good but maybe they were somewhat warped.
That's why I didn't consider it, visually it looked like i had a least another 10-15k left on them. I guess I was wrong, but I was pleasantly surprised when that fixed it.